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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Canadian Politics - A Brief Overview Part 3 - New Democratic Party and Green Party

Common Canadian Quip: "Who Cares about Tom Mulcair?"

Before Christmas, I promised my readers I would complete my trilogy of Canadian Politics 101 - A Brief Overview (previous posts dealt with The Conservatives and The Liberals)with a post about the last of the main parties - The New Democratic Party (NDP). Frankly, I have had a hard time getting back to the task... because of the ennui that envelopes me whenever I try to write about politics, Canadian Politics in particular. So this is going to be a final wrap up...with the promised "summation" post combined with this one.

As ﻿the following CBC analysis suggests, the NDP have fallen on hard times...with low poll numbers and record defections from their ranks:

"...There are now eight former NDP MPs who have either quit, moved on or been moved out since the party's electoral breakthrough in 2011 — to say nothing of those, such as deputy leader Libby Davies, who have decided not to run in 2015.......In his latest analysis, CBC's polling expert, Éric Grenier, characterizes the NDP support as "stuck" at an average of 20 per cent of support nationally. ..."
Why is the NDP doing so poorly with its newly elected leader? Well, you could blame Mulcair's rather bland personality. His public image is how he appears in the above photo...."academic looking". He presents as forever doubting his own decision-making abilities (and making no decisions when he doesn't have to.) In other words, Mulcair has committed the worst crime in politics...he's Boring.

Then, as well, there are rumours going the rounds that Mulcair is pro Israel:

I should have made a "disclaimer" at the outset of this post....here it is: Greencrow was an active NDPer "back in the day".

Greencrow at NDP National Convention held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in June of 1991, appropriately on the left and dressed in green. Former NDP Member of Parliament Ian Waddell (member for Port Moody/Coquitlam) is to my right. The two other men are fellow members of the Constituency Constitutional Committee

I became active in politics at the height of the Meech Lake Accord crisis in the late 80's and early 90's. What happened was that I was so angry about the constitutional amendment the Mulroney conservative party was trying to shove down the throats of Canadians that I became active, writing letters to newspapers, joining activist groups and...wait for it...even calling my Member of Parliament. Ian Waddell and I became phone friends. At the time, Ian also opposed the Accord which was quite courageous as there was tremendous pressure put on politicians to "go along". I ended up joining his "constituency constitutional committee" preparing a report of local voter feelings about the proposed Accord and then traveled to Ottawa to present it before the Senate Committee on Constitutional Reform. All expenses were paid. I was on National TV...those were heady days.

I learned a lot about the inner workings of politics. Ian asked me to write letters to newspapers about issues I wasn't really interested in...but I did it because I wanted to curry favour. During an election campaign I got assigned to putting up lawn election signs...and scratched the inside of my brand new MPV with all his rusty old signs. What happened then disillusioned me about politics forever.

Our constituency constitutional committee had written our report (critical of the Accord) and submitted it to Parliament. Then, not too long afterwards, I heard on the news (yes!) that Ian had changed his position and was in FAVOUR of the accord. Double crossed! and having to hear about it on the news. I called Ian up in Ottawa and asked him why he did it. He said that in the end he had to go along with the NDP Party view...and the NDP party had decided to support the accord. Our conversation ended with me giving Ian this warning: "Ian, there's a big train coming....and it's going to come at the next election...and all those who supported the Accord are going to be hit by the big train." Sure enough, Ian was defeated in the next election....along with virtually every other politician who had supported the Accord. Only two Conservatives were elected in the whole of Canada.

Ian ran for office a few more times in various ridings, both federally and provincially...he was never re-elected...and he never spoke to me again after the election where he was defeated.

So, those are my memories of politics...up close and personal...and part of the reason why I hold the view that all political parties are in cahoots and under the thumb of the international bankster cabal. Canadians have no real political choice.

In Canada today there is no opposition...even on critical issues like Canadian Defense/sovereignty:

(Canada is going to buy the US fighters that have already been called obsolete)

You can't get political support for any moral issues--such as an independent examination of the events of 9/11 (that brought Canada into the War on Afghanistan whereby we helped kill, wound and make thousands of refugees in Afghanistan...and kill/maim hundreds of Canadian soldiers).

All I can say is....there must be some real nasty thugs going around Canada threatening politicians....to end up having a Parliament so choc-a-block full of mealy-mouthed, yellow-bellied "say-nothings" as currently abound in Ottawa.

Some critics have pointed out that I could support the "green party". Well, first of all, the green party doesn't campaign against the globalist wars...at least not loudly enough that I've ever heard them. Most importantly...in western democracies...the Third Party is always surreptitiously... used/funded/not funded... by the main party(s) in order to divide the vote and allow an otherwise unelectable party to win.

I am firmly of the opinion that the "first past the post" system of democracy is irretrievably broken. We need to bring in--either the proportional system (like they have in Switzerland)--or have a "None of the Above" option placed on the ballot. I must not be explaining this last option well enough because someone I was talking to about it recently concluded that it was a "Hippy all you need is Love" option. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The "None of the Above" option would hold all the Political Parties' feet to the fire. If the parties didn't:

A) Adopt platforms and policies during the election,

B) Discuss/debate ALL the issues (no collusion between the parties) and present relevant solutions to the voters, and

C) follow through with their promises.

If NOT then, at the next election, politicians could find the election null andvoid...if a majority of the voters chose "None of the Above". IMO, one experience of that happening would bring democracy back to Canada lickety-split!

Penny, personal disappointments aside, the worst thing that the NDP has done is deny the anti-war movement a voice during the past decade+ since 9/11. Poll after poll showed that the majority of Canadians opposed Canada's involvement in the war against Afghanistan...based on the lies of 9/11. Yet this MAJORITY was denied any voice. I am sure that the NDP would be the governing party by now if it had given its supporters a voice. Instead it is an increasingly irrelevant rump party. What pressure from who and from where....causes this kind of self-immolation?

From the Crow's Nest

"What happened to Kennedy is nearly what happened to me. America is in danger of upheavals. But you'll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They'll do everything to stifle the scandal. They will throw Noah's cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don't want to know. They don't want to find out. They won't allow themselves to find out."

~ French president after returning to Paris from JFK's funeral on November 24th, 1963

Charles de Gaulle

“If NWO agents cannot use reason to make a point, then they are right: I am their enemy.” Vladimir Putin

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." JFK

Our rights will not fall due to limitations nor will they be abolished by unjust rule.

Ali Badwan re Palestine

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'.....the truth is that Western corporate so-called news media are simply this: one giant troll army marching in lockstep with the political agenda of Washington and its coterie of Western allies.' Finian Cunningham

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” – George Orwell

"Those who stand up for justice will always be on the right side of history." Copied from a protest sign seen at a demonstration in Palestine.

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"Authentic journalism is journalism that tells the people something the government doesn't want them to know." --Gary Webb (1955 – 2004)

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Anyone who relies on the Western media lives inside The Matrix. - Paul Craig Roberts

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Greencrow is an Internet identity and avatar I chose in 2003... when I first started going on news forums. I first used it on The New York Times forums (was kicked off that forum for insisting 9/11 was an inside job--since reinstated) but have used it on many other forums such as YouTube, CBC, Rabble.ca (kicked off that one) Rigorous Intuition (kicked off that one too) and a few more I can't think of at the moment. In any case, Blogs are supposed to be fun and I hope this one is for me and my readers. gc

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